Solano Diana, Rafferty Anne Marie
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK.
Int J Nurs Stud. 2007 Aug;44(6):1055-63. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2006.07.004. Epub 2006 Sep 12.
The British government's involvement in overseas nurse recruitment originated in its imperial past when the Colonial Nursing Service was established in 1940 by the Colonial Office to unify the administration of British nurse appointments across the Empire. The Colonial Office unified recruitment arrangements for colonial nursing posts, effectively creating an imperial market in nursing labour, which arguably set the historical precedent for the greater flow of international nurse recruitment from and to the United Kingdom (UK). The recent implementation of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Overseas Nurses Programme to regulate the registration route for international nurse recruits to the UK is symptomatic of growing international nurse migration. In a globalising marketplace, overseas nurse recruitment remains a significant supply factor in meeting the staffing needs of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. The continuities between the historical case of the Colonial Nursing Service and the current prevalence of transnational nurse migration highlight a pervading tension between the professional agenda of nursing and recruiters' and governments' responses to market pressures.
英国政府参与海外护士招聘可追溯至其帝国时代，当时殖民地办公室于1940年设立了殖民地护理服务机构，以统一管理整个帝国范围内英国护士的任用。殖民地办公室统一了殖民地护理岗位的招聘安排，实际上创造了一个护理劳动力的帝国市场，这可以说是为英国与其他国家之间国际护士招聘的更大规模流动奠定了历史先例。护理与助产士理事会最近实施的海外护士计划，旨在规范国际护士进入英国的注册途径，这是国际护士移民日益增加的一个表现。在全球化的市场中，海外护士招聘仍然是满足英国国民医疗服务体系（NHS）人员配备需求的一个重要供应因素。殖民地护理服务的历史案例与当前跨国护士移民的普遍现象之间的连续性，凸显了护理专业议程与招聘人员及政府对市场压力的应对之间普遍存在的紧张关系。
